Louie said:
So, the one quote was apparently mistranslated (even though the meaning behind the words was clear - what else would Furukawa be talking about? A shorter lifecycle?) and the Miyamoto quote isn't enough. What about Nintendo's recent comments that have already been quoted in this thread where they said the Switch is just entering the middle of its lifecycle? Are these also not enough? Can you maybe provide a quote where Nintendo says the Switch will have a normal lifecycle or a short one? Because at this point there is no use in digging up more quotes where Nintendo says the same thing, as apparently no matter how often they say it it's never enough for you. |
Who the fuck ever says something is going to have a short product cycle? Nintendo never said that even about the Wii U.
The middle of a product cycle can mean literally a half way-point, if we're at a mid-point in March 2020 and the beginning with March 2017. If we're on an 8 hour flight and we're 4 hours in, someone saying we're in the middle of the flight isn't inaccurate or wrong.
The point is the central quote that people use to claim that POV as gospel from Furukawa was never even actually said by him. When Nintendo releases fiscal year ends and Q&As quite often in a rush to get news out first things get mistranslated because NOA usually requires an extra day or two to put up the official English version, but that is the one people should read, not some amateur hour B-list gaming site run by 17 year olds looking for clicks.
If you actually read the quote from Furukawa it actually seems to imply more that he's looking at different form factors for the Switch to expand upon the Lite model rather than talking about product cycle at all. The other thing is even that quote he says *software* development too, he's not talking about hardware there.
A future software development cycle where systems can share games certainly would be different.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 10 May 2020
